It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

The bootable image needs to be, well, bootable -- which is why you can't just use some files off your HD; it needs a boot sector and all that. Put it on a floppy drive and see if it works. Remember ...

At startup, the Windows XP boot loader, NTLDR, reads the information stored to the boot.ini file to determine which operating systems the computer can boot from and uses this data to create a boot ...

Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control. Disclaimer: I work for Purism, and my experience with Heads began as ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

The files on the DVD don't look bootable.. In order to rule out that it's not an issue with that physical computer and in order for the thing to be reproducable, i thought of trying it in a Virtual ...

Regarding yesterday's item on using Disk Copy 6.5 to create a bootable CD (currently accessible only to developers), we received several replies: Use Software Restore Bob Jenkins confirms that you ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...